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Edgar Allen, to be precise.


Ughh, that was the worst attempt at humor I have made yet.

You are not the poetic Poe, to be apropos, you are the Poe:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poe's+Law

I love this part from the website:



I love the fact that they somehow seem to act like 10^21 and 10^25 are roughly the same, since, after all, 21 is almost 25!

It's not like, I dunno, one is, literally, ten thousand times as large as the other.

That's hilarious. (And I see you fixed your error before I could.) :tongue:

I love this part from the website:

I love the fact that they somehow seem to act like 10^21 and 10^25 are roughly the same, since, after all, 21 is almost 25!

It's not like, I dunno, one is, literally, ten thousand times as large as the other.

Please...orders of magnitude addressed in this manner are hardly a notation common to science. Its some other kind of notation, used in applied mathematics. I forget the actual term.

Gotta love urbandictionary...

1. Poe's Law
Similar to Murphy's Law, Poe's Law concerns internet debates, particularly regarding religion or politics.

"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

In other words, No matter how bizzare, outrageous, or just plain idiotic a parody of a Fundamentalist may seem, there will always be someone who cannot tell that it is a parody, having seen similar REAL ideas from real religious/political Fundamentalists.
The following is an actual Internet post to Biblically defend a flat Earth:

"All I was saying was that either the earth is flat, and the bible is correct, or the earth is round, and the bible is incorect, i'm going to study the issue more and deside for myself which route I want to take. Either Atheist evolutionist, who agrees with all of mainstream sciences, or flat earth litteral bible believer.
I'm leaning toward being an atheist, because if I can't believe the bible to be completly litteraly true, then I can't believe Jesus when he speaks about heaven, etc..
That would make the moon landing a fake, and pretty much all of modern science false..."

Response:

"That's it, I'm claiming Poe's Law on this guy."

Oh really?

Interesting... ;)

That's it, Poli. Your reckless and grossly negligent use of emoticons, combined with your previously admitted provocative dress, means you now satisfy the criteria for gender profiling.

Put your hands above your head and sway your hips...a female officer will be summoned to check you for weapons and deep tension in your muscles.

Gotta love urbandictionary...

1. Poe's Law
Similar to Murphy's Law, Poe's Law concerns internet debates, particularly regarding religion or politics.

"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

In other words, No matter how bizzare, outrageous, or just plain idiotic a parody of a Fundamentalist may seem, there will always be someone who cannot tell that it is a parody, having seen similar REAL ideas from real religious/political Fundamentalists.
The following is an actual Internet post to Biblically defend a flat Earth:

"All I was saying was that either the earth is flat, and the bible is correct, or the earth is round, and the bible is incorect, i'm going to study the issue more and deside for myself which route I want to take. Either Atheist evolutionist, who agrees with all of mainstream sciences, or flat earth litteral bible believer.
I'm leaning toward being an atheist, because if I can't believe the bible to be completly litteraly true, then I can't believe Jesus when he speaks about heaven, etc..
That would make the moon landing a fake, and pretty much all of modern science false..."

Response:

"That's it, I'm claiming Poe's Law on this guy."

The power of Poe compels you! Show your true face, Demonas!

Another part I love:


Isaiah 55:10
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,

Um...they do return there. That's kinda how the water cycle of our planet works...

The power of Poe compels you! Show your true face, Demonas!

It burns!

Another part I love:


Isaiah 55:10
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,

Um...they do return there. That's kinda how the water cycle of our planet works...

Glad I could entertain you with a hypocritical website, Neo Art.

Glad I could entertain you with a hypocritical website, Neo Art.

you don't amuse me, nor really does the website. What amuses me are the people who read it and take it seriously.

Amuse me, and scare the living shit out of me.

you don't amuse me, nor really does the website. What amuses me are the people who read it and take it seriously.

Amuse me, and scare the living shit out of me.

At the same time?

Another part I love:


Isaiah 55:10
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,

Um...they do return there. That's kinda how the water cycle of our planet works...

They just meant that very first time, when the earth's water supply came from heaven, known as Poliwanacraca's love sweat, and since then, all that water has remained on Earth, cycling to the sky, which is not what is meant by heaven.

'Cause if the sky was Heaven, there would be no atmosphere over states that allow gay marriage, or as the lord calls it, queertromony.

They just meant that very first time, when the earth's water supply came from heaven, known as Poliwanacraca's love sweat, and since then, all that water has remained on Earth, cycling to the sky, which is not what is meant by heaven.

'Cause if the sky was Heaven, there would be no atmosphere over states that allow gay marriage, or as the lord calls it, queertromony.

Which is why we here in MA survive in giant self contained breathing suits, like those dudes from Biosphere.

You can call me big daddy.

Take this one guy. He was in his early twenties, caucasian, short, feathered sandy blonde hair with cute bangs, wearing a respectable white work out shirt, but he ruins the entire ensemble by wearing some tight red workout shorts! As if I, a Christ-centered heterosexual man, wants to see his massive, throbbing bulge!

Sounds pretty metrosexual of you. Have you tried asking them to pray it away. Apparently that works in Alaska.

Glad I could entertain you with a hypocritical website, Neo Art.

Damn you, you got me and shortly after I'd lambasted someone else for the exact same thing!

Bravo!

They just meant that very first time, when the earth's water supply came from heaven, known as Poliwanacraca's love sweat, and since then, all that water has remained on Earth, cycling to the sky, which is not what is meant by heaven.

'Cause if the sky was Heaven, there would be no atmosphere over states that allow gay marriage, or as the lord calls it, queertromony.

*is so, so glad she finished her glass of water just before reading this post instead of while reading this post* :tongue:

Which is why we here in MA survive in giant self contained breathing suits, like those dudes from Biosphere.

You can call me big daddy.

If you are referencing the Chick Pamphlet on evolution that goes by that title, you are now far more clever than me, and I must destroy you.

Which is why we here in MA survive in giant self contained breathing suits, like those dudes from Biosphere.

You can call me big daddy.

My suit is still back ordered, so I have to live in one of those giant bubbles like in Bubble Boy starring Jake Gyllenhall.

*is so, so glad she finished her glass of water just before reading this post instead of while reading this post* :tongue:

Choose the response you prefer:

Revelation 3:15-16, the Bible has so much to teach us!


or:


Poliwanacraca held that polarized molecule in her lovely mouth, and it sang, its hydrogen arms clutching, despite all stearic strain, to hold to her pursed and perfect lips, lamenting to be without flavor, there, upon the tongue beloved by worlds of men, to have no taste to tempt her with, and left only, the final hope, to be swallowed and not sent away from her heart...

Choose the response you prefer:

Revelation 3:15-16, the Bible has so much to teach us!


or:


Poliwanacraca held that polarized molecule in her lovely mouth, and it sang, its hydrogen arms clutching, despite all stearic strain, to hold to her pursed and perfect lips, lamenting to be without flavor, there, upon the tongue beloved by worlds of men, to have no taste to tempt her with, and left only, the final hope, to be swallowed and not sent away from her heart...

....can I have both? :D

Which is why we here in MA survive in giant self contained breathing suits, like those dudes from Biosphere.

You can call me big daddy.

*Injects a plasmid*

Prepare to die Big Daddy! I need to harvest the Little Sister for adam!

*Rips out a childs small intestine thinking it is the Adam slug.*

If you are referencing the Chick Pamphlet on evolution that goes by that title, you are now far more clever than me, and I must destroy you.

a double entendre, as it were.

Hammurab, do you realise how gay you sound ???

Um, are we having a troll-fest here?
Am I the only one that senses crypto-homoerotic satire in the OPs post


Crypto? If that's "crypto-homoerotic satire" you need to get your satire detector tuned.

Hammurab, do you realise how gay you sound ???

I am insulted. Deeply. Deeply and probingly, uncomfortable at first, but then yielding and finally with a primal, rhythmic thrusting.














For fuck's sake, people, really?

Prepare to die Big Daddy! I need to harvest the Little Sister for adam!

Anyone who was not familiar with Bioshock would have Chris Hansen on speed dial at this point.

All legalization of discrimination does is make it legal for others to do. This I am in favour of.
No, I do not intend to dial it back. Discrimination, of the type I advocate legalizing, does no harm and has no victims.

And with the underline he begins attempting BAREFACEDLY to dial it back only one sentence after saying he wouldn't.

The OP makes me think of this (http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/why_do_all_these_homosexuals) classic Onion article.

YES! I was hoping I could find that to post here but couldn't remember the title.

So, I was at the gym yesterday, and as a Christ-centered individual, I realized something. Gays should have to use separate gyms.

Here I am, trying to develop my body, which is a temple unto the Lord, and I'm constantly distracted by flagrant, willful homosexuality.

Take this one guy. He was in his early twenties, caucasian, short, feathered sandy blonde hair with cute bangs, wearing a respectable white work out shirt, but he ruins the entire ensemble by wearing some tight red workout shorts! As if I, a Christ-centered heterosexual man, wants to see his massive, throbbing bulge!

But, the Bible counsels us to be patient with sin, so after fifteen minutes of stairing at him (ruefully, of course), I overlooked it and went back to my squat lunges. Not five minutes go by, when another gay saunters in front of me!

This time, it was a sizable black man, which I'm not normally opposed to, since blacks in America have dutifully accepted Christ, unlike a certain other segment of the population that Frisbee will yell at me for if I name them. So, anyway, this African American fellow goes over to the weight rack, and proceeds to shamelessly throw his gayness in my face with his strained, muscular movements and his firm jawed expression, his looming, masculine body a potent, radiant expression of dark, chocolately muscle. What a queer.

I reigned in my disgust and went to shower off, hoping to escape this soup of shameless homo-erotic horror. But sadly, there was nowhere to run. Even the shower was awash in sinful man-on-man madness. I finally couldn't stand it anymore. I marched right up to that Puerto Rican guy in the shower, tapped him on the shoulder, and when he turned around, I told him that I was tired of his sick, putrid, foul, lustful eyes all over my Christian physique. I told him to read Leviticus, pray, date, marry, and unleash his perverse urges on a woman for a change.

I'm so sick of gay people. They really need their own gym. And library.
that my friend is a sign of conservatism and sexual rigidity.

And with the underline he begins attempting BAREFACEDLY to dial it back only one sentence after saying he wouldn't.

Gets worse, man. If you're bored, check the Palin thread. It was so bad, to be honest, I had no choice but to agree with Jocabia.

Me. I agreed with Jocabia. Jocabia.

I had to, he was fracking right, and Nicea Sancta was backpedaling more than Lance Armstrong on Bizarro World...

Yes, we should be supportive, but very few people actually talk about themselves in the third person.


Tmutarakhan does, sometimes.

Redwulf thinks people who talk about themselves in the third person are crazy.

No one's pointed out that Hammurab is an anagram of Bum-Haram - guy can't even spell harem correctly but it's still clear he wants a tent full of naked guys.

Is this a joke?

Gays should be allowed to have their own gym, should a group of homosexuals so choose to start a gym in which they will only allow homosexuals to be members.
As should straight be allowed to have their own gym, should a group of heterosexuals so choose to start a gym in which they will allow only heterosexuals to be members

You really do have no sense of humor.

Is this a joke?

No, it is in fact an omelet.

No one's pointed out that Hammurab is an anagram of Bum-Haram - guy can't even spell harem correctly but it's still clear he wants a tent full of naked guys.

As a Christ-centered individual, I would never engage in dirty foreign practices that I will erronneously associate with Islam.

I've never been near a tent full of naked guys, accept at that Christian Men's Chamber of Commerce Camping Trip and Christ Centered Hot Dog Eating Contest in Fort Collins last year, and like we told the park ranger, we were naked because it was hot and the mustard was to keep the bugs off our christ centered genitals.

How long does it take you Hammurab

Damn, I fail to check NSG for ONE day and this thread balloons.


But if everyone decides to be gay, what will happen?
All the women will be with other women, and men with their men. They all live their happy homosexual lifes till they realize this:

If everyone is gay, there has been no heterosexual's to make children! Population goes goodbye.

Mayi be correct in assuming you are a believer in the theory of evolution?

Glad I could entertain you with a hypocritical website, Neo Art.

Damn you, I failed to see this Poe. I must bow down to you :hail::hail: I was getting all ready to start debating with you seriously.

Though I have to say I did have quite a serious search of that website to find the parody disclaimer I was certain was lurking somewhere. It's fucking scary when you realise that it's real.


For fuck's sake, people, really?

Yes, but then again you have Nicea turning up in this thread, who I still can't quite believe is not a Poe. Which just proves the law.

The great thing about this thread is the sponsored links. So far, there's been a pop up for gay chubby dating (I wonder if Hammurab got a pop up for that) and gaylove.com. It just adds to the parody.

Please...orders of magnitude addressed in this manner are hardly a notation common to science. Its some other kind of notation, used in applied mathematics. I forget the actual term.

Just to make sure, that is in fact a very common notation in science for dealing with incredibly (astronomically, even) large quantities.

The other one that comes up occasionally is aEb = a * 10^b

And there are of course the SI prefixes, but those belong in front of units and simply signify particular powers of 10.

And with the underline he begins attempting BAREFACEDLY to dial it back only one sentence after saying he wouldn't.

Beat you to that, I'm afraid (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14067480&postcount=104). In detail, and with both posts. He still refused to admit it.

So the difference between a satire and a flamebait/trolling is... that's right postcount. I'm not complaining though, just observing.

So the difference between a satire and a flamebait/trolling is... that's right postcount. I'm not complaining though, just observing.

No, the difference is one's funny.

So the difference between a satire and a flamebait/trolling is... that's right postcount. I'm not complaining though, just observing.

The difference is in the quality and type of writing, primarily. A cursory reading of Hammurab's post makes it rather obvious xe is not being serious. We can therefore conclude that Hammurab is being satirical, and the further discussion and posts by Hammurab in this thread merely make this clear.

We have definitely had satirists turn up before with very little post count and make it work. We have also had trolls with high post counts. It's about how well you can write it, not one's post count (Indeed, if I could, I would disable post counts and join dates).

For reference, a similar OP as flamebait/trolling:

While I was at the gym today, I saw all these sickly homosexuals there, distracting us good God fearing men from our Christ centered lives. The dirty bastards should have their own gyms

Admittedly, I still haven't taken it particularly seriously, but I simply can't bring myself to make a serious post that stupid.

When I saw this thread and then saw the OP I was so not surprised. We need to send his Christ-center butt off someplace. Hey, I think Christ-centered fruitloops should have to use seperate gyms.:p

How long does it take you Hammurab

How long does it take Tom Cruise to make a movie?

Latent yet intense manlust does not impede work product. Nor does Ann Coulter's penis prevent her from writing brilliant political and religious treatisesesseses.

Latent yet intense manlust does not impede work product. Nor does Ann Coulter's penis prevent her from writing brilliant political and religious treatisesesseses.

I must make a cult based on you, Hammurab.:hail:

So the difference between a satire and a flamebait/trolling is... that's right postcount. I'm not complaining though, just observing.

You know, I used to think the difference was nuance, the subtle texture with which the rendering of absurdity was accomplished, the patina of humor quite present, but introduced as an undertone, like the scent of good pipe smoke.
But a substantial, not necessarily majorative but still sizable, portion of people thought it was serious.

So, like a puzzled chef working on the Vegas strip, unprepared for so wide a spectrum of refinement in palate, I began to escalate the potency of my spices, hoping that some balance could be achieved, between gentle satire and pungent irony....and still, some people thought I was serious.

The Master of the Order of Huxley smiles, a quiet and distant laughter, as I must make it yet more obvious, asymptotically approaching an explicit preface saying "Attention: This Is Satire"...

"Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." -E.B. White

hey Hammurab, check your TGs.

I must make a cult based on you, Hammurab.:hail:

[Enter Serious Mode]
During your absence, I refused to cut my hair, and would neither sing nor play upon musical instruments, for like the gods were lost when Susanoo withdrew to her cave, this place without you was sunless.[End Serious Mode]

Don't join cults, Nan. They are not Christ Centered. They have strange, arcane, mystic beliefs and try to govern how you live your life.

Instead, you should wash yourself in the healing blood of a crucified man so that your sins are forgiven, and live by what the bible tells you.

[Enter Serious Mode]
During your absence, I refused to cut my hair, and would neither sing nor play upon musical instruments, for like the gods were lost when Susanoo withdrew to her cave, this place without you was sunless.[End Serious Mode]

Don't join cults, Nan. They are not Christ Centered. They have strange, arcane, mystic beliefs and try to govern how you live your life.

Instead, you should wash yourself in the healing blood of a crucified man so that your sins are forgiven, and live by what the bible tells you.

I think I will stick with making the Cult of Hammurab.

hey Hammurab, check your TGs.

My involvement with TransGendered strippers is ministry based, and none of your business.

Nowhere in scripture does it say you can't get a little gear-shift action with your lap dance. After all, spreading God's love to she-male exotic dancers is the only way to save them...the healing power of the Lord might make their giblets grow back.

My involvement with TransGendered strippers is ministry based, and none of your business.

Nowhere in scripture does it say you can't get a little gear-shift action with your lap dance. After all, spreading God's love to she-male exotic dancers is the only way to save them...the healing power of the Lord might make their giblets grow back.

well, check it AGAIN (IE, replied)

I think I will stick with making the Cult of Hammurab.

[Enter Serious Mode, for some reason lured their repeatedly by the Tsuki-pooki]You know what's a great cult? The Raelians. I hang out with them a lot. Their leader spends a lot of time here in Vegas, and one of their bishops is a great guy.[End Serious Mode]

wtf r u people mad of coarse gays should b aloud in the same gym
wtf is ur problem

wtf r u people mad of coarse gays should b aloud in the same gym
wtf is ur problem

Your grammar... mate... your grammar is my problem.:eek:

wtf r u people mad of coarse gays should b aloud in the same gym
wtf is ur problem Grammar =/= win. :eek2:

Don't join cults, Nan. They are not Christ Centered. They have strange, arcane, mystic beliefs and try to govern how you live your life.

Instead, you should wash yourself in the healing blood of a crucified man so that your sins are forgiven, and live by what the bible tells you.

I think I will stick with making the Cult of Hammurab.

What bodily fluids does that cult involve being washed in? :eek:

What bodily fluids does that cult involve being washed in? :eek:

I took a vow of silence there.

So, I was at the gym yesterday, and as a Christ-centered individual, I realized something. Gays should have to use separate gyms.

Here I am, trying to develop my body, which is a temple unto the Lord, and I'm constantly distracted by flagrant, willful homosexuality.

Take this one guy. He was in his early twenties, caucasian, short, feathered sandy blonde hair with cute bangs, wearing a respectable white work out shirt, but he ruins the entire ensemble by wearing some tight red workout shorts! As if I, a Christ-centered heterosexual man, wants to see his massive, throbbing bulge!

But, the Bible counsels us to be patient with sin, so after fifteen minutes of stairing at him (ruefully, of course), I overlooked it and went back to my squat lunges. Not five minutes go by, when another gay saunters in front of me!

This time, it was a sizable black man, which I'm not normally opposed to, since blacks in America have dutifully accepted Christ, unlike a certain other segment of the population that Frisbee will yell at me for if I name them. So, anyway, this African American fellow goes over to the weight rack, and proceeds to shamelessly throw his gayness in my face with his strained, muscular movements and his firm jawed expression, his looming, masculine body a potent, radiant expression of dark, chocolately muscle. What a queer.

I reigned in my disgust and went to shower off, hoping to escape this soup of shameless homo-erotic horror. But sadly, there was nowhere to run. Even the shower was awash in sinful man-on-man madness. I finally couldn't stand it anymore. I marched right up to that Puerto Rican guy in the shower, tapped him on the shoulder, and when he turned around, I told him that I was tired of his sick, putrid, foul, lustful eyes all over my Christian physique. I told him to read Leviticus, pray, date, marry, and unleash his perverse urges on a woman for a change.

I'm so sick of gay people. They really need their own gym. And library.


Try Hawks Gym :D

I took a vow of silence there.

Oi, I'll have nun of that.

Oi, I'll have nun of that.

But... but... if I say something, Hammurab will not sex me!!!!




:D

wtf r u people mad of coarse gays should b aloud in the same gym
wtf is ur problem

u shud reedz da bibulz, t sez da gayz r da ebulz un do da bottsecks

But... but... if I say something, Hammurab will not sex me!!!!

:D

I seriously doubt our Iberian Vixen has many problems gettin' the sexxin'.

"Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." -E.B. White

E.B. White is basically saying that nothing kills a joke faster than explaining it. Yet to how many posters have you needed to explain your bit of satire in this thread. Don't get me wrong, I personally found the OP quite funny and I think the problem lies more with your choise of audience than the material itself. Clearly you could not have assumed that everyone reading NSG would take the OP as satire, because making that assumption would be almost as stupid as taking your OP as a serious post.

Edited to add: Negative comments about people who don't get your joke don't make you look any funnier. That's just elitism.

u shud reedz da bibulz, t sez da gayz r da ebulz un do da bottsecks

Nooooooo.... do not encourage the l33t speak and shitty grammar, it makes my eyes hurt.

E.B. White is basically saying that nothing kills a joke faster than explaining it. Yet to how many posters have you needed to explain your bit of satire in this thread.

That was my point, to lament that I have to explain it, thus gutting the joke.


Don't get me wrong, I personally found the OP quite funny and I think the problem lies more with your choise of audience than the material itself. Clearly you could not have assumed that everyone reading NSG would take the OP as satire, because making that assumption would be almost as stupid as taking your OP as a serious post.

Well, in all seriousness, you've got me there; it was an unreasonable expectation. Its just...some things seem so evident, a priori. I shouldn't try to mandate my perspective on everyone, and you are correct in that there will likely always be some who just don't see it, or don't see it that way. But "cute bangs", and they still don't get it? I mean, Jesus...


Edited to add: Negative comments about people who don't get your joke don't make you look any funnier. That's just elitism.

My whining wasn't mean to be part of the humor...its just, to have to throw so much pepper into the recipe...the more obvious I make it, the less it even has claim to being authentic satire.

I guess I should try to be mindful of all the things that go over my own head, like interpretive dance or marriage counseling...

haha if the original poster was not joking ..then i wud suggest that the christ centred heterosexual man is actually a gay oriented in closet christian hypocrite ..

haha coz it sounds like ha has a fancy for guys mebbe that why he notices them so much ...he certainly notices them more than other members of the opposite sex ..

if u dunt like what u see, moramell people just ognore it ..haha

Wow. Is this what America has come to? I'm ashamed. People CHOOSE if they want to be homosexual or heterosexual. You, my religous friend, say that it is wrong. However, that was THEIR choice. Not YOURS. So lay off them, they are already laughed at and hated too much. If you don't like them, go to a different gym. Otherwise, what you are suggesting is SEGREGATION. That is WRONG.
Just my opinion.

Wow. Is this what America has come to? I'm ashamed. People CHOOSE if they want to be homosexual or heterosexual. You, my religous friend, say that it is wrong. However, that was THEIR choice. Not YOURS. So lay off them, they are already laughed at and hated too much. If you don't like them, go to a different gym. Otherwise, what you are suggesting is SEGREGATION. That is WRONG.
Just my opinion.

Oh, as a committed Christian, I very much agree that people "choose", as you put it, to be homosexual. After all, its a sin, and sin is a choice.

What I can't stand is those idiots who don't understand that you're right, homosexuality is a choice. You wouldn't believe how many mouthbreathers on this very board think that being gay is some sort of natural state, occuring in other organisms, potentially related to a series of heterozygous recessive genes, and an instrinsic characteristic you can be born with.

I know you disagree with my segregationist comments, but I'm so glad somebody else here understands that being gay is a choice, because that lays so much important groundwork...

Alright, Hammurab knows way too much about biology to be serious. He's a troll, never mind.

Alright, Hammurab knows way too much about biology to be serious. He's a troll, never mind.

How fucking dare you imply that basic exposure to biology would preclude the authentic embrace of a truly American Fundamentalist Christian mentality.

How fucking dare you imply that basic exposure to biology would preclude the authentic embrace of a truly American Fundamentalist Christian mentality.

I sort of didn't imply it, I just said it.

I sort of didn't imply it, I just said it.

Your premise was only that I couldn't be serious, you never delineate to any explicit extent that mere use of biological terms are categorically prohibitive to a particular idealogy, only that I could not be serious.

What I can't stand is those idiots who don't understand that you're right, homosexuality is a choice. You wouldn't believe how many mouthbreathers on this very board think that being gay is some sort of natural state, occuring in other organisms, potentially related to a series of heterozygous recessive genes, and an instrinsic characteristic you can be born with.


Let's us not forget interacting with fetal exposure to hormonal influences (particularly in later children) and ultimately displaying brain hemispheric asymetries similar to those seen in within heterosexual members of the opposite sex.

But of course none of that means it's innate and biologically based :eek:

I thought I was straight until I read the OP. Hammurab, what are you doing to me?

Oh, as a committed Christian, I very much agree that people "choose", as you put it, to be homosexual. After all, its a sin, and sin is a choice.

What I can't stand is those idiots who don't understand that you're right, homosexuality is a choice. You wouldn't believe how many mouthbreathers on this very board think that being gay is some sort of natural state, occuring in other organisms, potentially related to a series of heterozygous recessive genes, and an instrinsic characteristic you can be born with.

I know you disagree with my segregationist comments, but I'm so glad somebody else here understands that being gay is a choice, because that lays so much important groundwork...

Good Lord. Have you ever met a single gay person? Because I'm pretty sure that if you did and you came out (no pun intended) with some of this stuff, a new form of queer-bashing would be born. Have you ever asked a gay person how he or she feels about being gay? People ask me when I chose to be gay, to which I always reply the same thing: "When you CHOSE to be straight". So, Hammurab, when did you CHOSE to be straight and not gay? Was it a conscious decision to prefer the opposite gender to the same, or was there a predisposition, instinct or desire for people of the other gender?

And as for these silly segregation comments, should I be sent off to another forum? Am I not allowed to be here because I'm attracted to people of my own gender?

It is comments such as yours that make this world a more difficult place to live. It took me a long time to come to terms with my sexuality, and an even longer time to be comfortable enough with who I am to confide in people, and it was comments like these that made it easier for me to pretend to be somebody else. I find it difficult to believe that people actually exist who want to live in a hostile and cruel society just because they cannot reconcile themselves with the fact that there are people different to them. Why should I be sent to another gym just because I am gay? It started this way in Nazi Germany with the Jews. First, they couldn't go in certain places on certain days, and we all know where that ended up. Why can't you people just be more tolerant?

Good Lord. Have you ever met a single gay person? Because I'm pretty sure that if you did and you came out (no pun intended) with some of this stuff, a new form of queer-bashing would be born. Have you ever asked a gay person how he or she feels about being gay? People ask me when I chose to be gay, to which I always reply the same thing: "When you CHOSE to be straight". So, Hammurab, when did you CHOSE to be straight and not gay? Was it a conscious decision to prefer the opposite gender to the same, or was there a predisposition, instinct or desire for people of the other gender?

And as for these silly segregation comments, should I be sent off to another forum? Am I not allowed to be here because I'm attracted to people of my own gender?

It is comments such as yours that make this world a more difficult place to live. It took me a long time to come to terms with my sexuality, and an even longer time to be comfortable enough with who I am to confide in people, and it was comments like these that made it easier for me to pretend to be somebody else. I find it difficult to believe that people actually exist who want to live in a hostile and cruel society just because they cannot reconcile themselves with the fact that there are people different to them. Why should I be sent to another gym just because I am gay? It started this way in Nazi Germany with the Jews. First, they couldn't go in certain places on certain days, and we all know where that ended up. Why can't you people just be more tolerant?

P.S Harrumb is making satire here, actually poking fun at the people you are having a rant against. Oh and Goodwins law came into effect with this post too.

Good Lord. Have you ever met a single gay person? Because I'm pretty sure that if you did and you came out (no pun intended) with some of this stuff, a new form of queer-bashing would be born. Have you ever asked a gay person how he or she feels about being gay? People ask me when I chose to be gay, to which I always reply the same thing: "When you CHOSE to be straight". So, Hammurab, when did you CHOSE to be straight and not gay? Was it a conscious decision to prefer the opposite gender to the same, or was there a predisposition, instinct or desire for people of the other gender?

And as for these silly segregation comments, should I be sent off to another forum? Am I not allowed to be here because I'm attracted to people of my own gender?

It is comments such as yours that make this world a more difficult place to live. It took me a long time to come to terms with my sexuality, and an even longer time to be comfortable enough with who I am to confide in people, and it was comments like these that made it easier for me to pretend to be somebody else. I find it difficult to believe that people actually exist who want to live in a hostile and cruel society just because they cannot reconcile themselves with the fact that there are people different to them. Why should I be sent to another gym just because I am gay? It started this way in Nazi Germany with the Jews. First, they couldn't go in certain places on certain days, and we all know where that ended up. Why can't you people just be more tolerant?

Wow... missing the Poe AND invoking Godwin... look, don't stress, honestly. I can see this is an issue very close to your heart, and I sympathise, but it's a misconstruing of his positions.You're new here, so I'll give you benefit of the doubt. Allow me to assure you that Hammurab is a satirist. He is using very subtle humour to disparage the views he is apparently espousing. I would have thought the whole "cute bangs" bit, amongst others, in his OP may have given it away, but that's what you get for the typed word. Sarcasm is just so much harder to pick without vocal inflections.

He is using very subtle humour to disparage the views he is apparently espousing.

"Very subtle"? What thread were you reading?

Wow... missing the Poe AND invoking Godwin... look, don't stress, honestly. I can see this is an issue very close to your heart, and I sympathise, but it's a misconstruing of his positions.You're new here, so I'll give you benefit of the doubt. Allow me to assure you that Hammurab is a satirist. He is using very subtle humour to disparage the views he is apparently espousing. I would have thought the whole "cute bangs" bit, amongst others, in his OP may have given it away, but that's what you get for the typed word. Sarcasm is just so much harder to pick without vocal inflections.

Golly. Had no idea I had it all wrong. Apologies to all involved, not least Hammurab.

Note to self: learn to take things less seriously.

Golly. Had no idea I had it all wrong. Apologies to all involved, not least Hammurab.

Note to self: learn to take things less seriously.

Only on NSG, also have a bit of a read of the thread first you will tell if someone is joking or trolling or being serious.

Remember when it is Hammurab it is satire and not to be taken seriously, if it is LG don't ever take it seriously and the rest well you are on your own.